Lupercus

American  

[loo-pur-kuhs] / luˈpɜr kəs /

noun

1. an ancient Roman fertility god, often identified with Faunus or Pan.

---

Example Sentences

The same writer also says that the Pope tried to abolish it in the fifth century, but he succeeded only in sending it down to us in the name of St. Valentine instead of Lupercus.

From Our Holidays Their Meaning and Spirit; retold from St. Nicholas by Various

Munius Lupercus advances from Vetera with remnant of Legs.

From Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II by Fyfe, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton)

It records the name of a Roman knight, Sufenas, who had held the office of Lupercus and had been a fellow of the Neapolitan phratria of Antinous—fretriaco Neapoli Antinoiton et Eunostidon.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington

Lupercus was, primarily, the god of shepherds, said to have been so called because he protected the flocks from wolves.

From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Black, Ebenezer Charlton

You feast so often without me, Lupercus, I've found a way by which to pay you out, I am incensed, and if you should invite me, What would I do, you ask me?

From History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan